West Yorkshire Archaeology Service
The Oak Room, The Old Cock Hotel, Halifax
Grade II listed building and Public House. The Old Cock has been an inn since 1688 but was originally built as a town house in the 1580s by William Saville of Copley following his marriage to Isabel Lacey in 1575. Much altered over the years, the Oak Room survives at the 1st floor with a fine Elizabethan carved and inlaid oak fireplace dated 1581, the room is lit by a large mullioned and transomed window infilled with stained glass panels. It was in this room that the Halifax Building Society was formed.
Photograph P. Thornborrow ©WYAS
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